How to counter Dragoncraft?

[Allie Rin]

I'm not sure how to counter Dragoncraft at all, If you go for board control Dc will just keep plopping minions on the board, if you go face and try to end the match, Dc will board control you and you will end up out of resources. I'm not sure what to do to counter it, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Bishop]

What deck are you using? Dragoncraft is mostly about early ramp or untargetable minions spam along with bunch of cheap removals into mid-lategame storm minion spam or in case of ramp dragon heavy taunt spam as well. Their early game is nothing realy worth mentioning, remove things like trinity dragons or scholars if possible and don't leave mushishi alive before evolve phase is out.

Midgame you have to play around Siegfried if possible and late game forte damage can be calculated and countered by taunts. If you play against ramp dragon, then you may expect things like goblin tanks, neptunes, olivia, fafnir and of course genesis dragon. If you cannot deal with all this ♥♥♥♥ don't allow them survive into lategame, that about it.

The main weakness of DC is that they quickly run out of steam. Keep them dry and stick to your usual win condition and you usually outvalue them fairly quickly depending on your deck.

[Allie Rin]

Runecraft, It feels like like they have an answer to everything except dealing with swarms. Haven't dealt with a ramp drag yet, so my best bet is hope I can maintain board control?

[Awesome!]

play wards so they cant forte you in the face

[Allie Rin]

Which ones? It only delays the inevitable.

[DJTron]

any ward at all, if you delay the storm minion for a turn you can kill it with rune's amazing removal options without letting it hit face. that is rune's specialty after all

[Maldon]

As a DC Main i can tell you that any ward is a bid problem to face dragoncraft decks

[That Guy]

Originally posted by Maldon:

As a DC Main i can tell you that any ward is a bid problem to face dragoncraft decks

haHahaHHAHahahAHahahaHaahaHaHahahHhaHahaaaaa right turn 4 your avle to use 6-7 mana and throwing down your junk because you want to clear your hand of things that wont end the match and your opponent has to use up their evolve just to keep up

its second rate forest tactics without roaches but you get extra mana. they should unnerf shadow craft. only thing with no real card draw

[IHaveLigma]

If its the 3 forte face or storm dragon, then you can only beat cancer with cancer.

The biggest counter to face dragon/storm ramp are Elena/seraph hybrid Haven decks, usually because they wont be able to finish you of, since you are constantly healing and having big creatures, and can easily banish minions that are un-attackable.

Currently dragon only got a 43% winrate vs Haven.

Blood and sword usually does okay vs them, because they kill them by turn 5-6, before dragon can finish them off.

Rest of the cast is 50-50 with meta decks, bar the Dshifts, which cant really handle the agression, and lose 52-58% of the time depending on dragon 1st or 2nd.



tldr: play heal haven if you wanna ruin dragoncraft's day.

[Pandarino]

Wards, spells-removals(so you can destroy forte)
Iam not facing many face dragoncraft, but good strategy is to have nice amount of smaller followers + ward ... (mid range swordcraft/ aggro shadowcraft with some wards can be also good) But if you are playing Runecraft (spellboost- bellringer, or any ward/you should have ENOUGH spells to deal with forte) (Earth rite Runecraft- you already have so many wards and nice removals that is nearly impossible to loose against face dragon)

[Bishop]

Dragon craft in t2 in nutshell.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=825781043

Then as usual you meet some sword, who doesn't give a ♥♥♥♥ and just rush your face by turn 6 :(